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  • Over Canyonlands viewpoint, the moon slowly

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    Scene notes:

    …sets with Cirrus clouds moving overhead. Cirrus clouds, a thin layer of water 40,000 or so feet in the sky, pass quickly by with motion-blur due to the long exposure, which allows the illumination of the moon to be magnified on the desert vista below. Since it is so far below, the Canyonlands view stretches a vast distance, and the many stars of the night sky move as the Earth spins, and the moon with it, towards the horizon and out of the clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 11 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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    Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 28 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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    Scene notes:

    Seems to rotate, it is the Earth that spins, The continuation of another clip with blue color grading.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Very low-density clouds in the moonlight on rocky…

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    A rocky landscape in front of snow-capped mountains. Under a moonlit night sky, stratus clouds ascend Mt Whitney and the Sierras, but only with enough to meander. The mountain range is snowy and steep, fully lit with the moon. The night sky is starry, and in the bottom tenth of the frame, the rocky hills are at the foot of the steep mountain slopes, which have shadows from the rare cloud that makes it over the ridges.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 8 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars

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    Scene notes:

    A starry night sky on a gently rising slope leading up in the lower fifth of the frame. In the lower left corner, light pollution yellows a thin layer of clouds, and the sky spins left-right. Along the landscape a car or two travels around at a low speed, its headlights seemingly searching in the dark. Not facing in the direction of the galactic plane, which is the area of the night sky in which the majority of our galaxies starts are visible.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 7 frames.

  • 1 of 3 Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight

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    Scene notes:

    Sometimes a high wind gust will come along and cause the tripod to move slightly. In these rare instances, the clip may be stabilized digitally or divided in two. This shot of the Alabama Hills at night under a nearly full moon has a cut that divides the scene into two clips, one with a longer shutter speed.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 78 frames.

  • 2 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight

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    Scene notes:

    Mt Whitney is seen among its neighboring peaks in the Sierra Nevada range of mountains at night. With the long shutter speed of three seconds and an interval of five seconds and clouds quickly float overhead. The stratus clouds floating high enough fly over, the lower ones are caught and piled up on a few of the peaks. A landscape of hills made of smooth and rocks of varying sizes, from massive to minute, climbs to the left of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 80 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Very light cloud catches the moonlight, forming an ice ring halo around it

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    Scene notes:

    Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be the right density and altitude (in this function, as a distance from the observer), to create a halo made of frozen vapor, an optical illusion.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 17 frames.